Transparent Building in Render

[CD-Magnox]

I have an assembly consisting of a building and a facility inside.

I am trying to render an image with the building in transparent but the facility normal.

When ever I go into render no matter what I do the building will not be transparent.

I have tried making my building a single part with a transparent appearance assigned to it, this doesn't work, setting transparency in the model tree doesn't work.

Does anyone know a work around for this?

I'm running Inventor 2021.

[mcgyvr]

How specifically is it not working?

Can you show us some images to help better understand the problem?

[CD-Magnox]

The building in rendering as a normal building, not as a transparent building.

[CD-Magnox]

Ok I am limited in what I can show, but as you can see the inventor image shows building as transparent, the second image shows the render view with the buildings normal.

[SharkDesign]

Your parts are not transparent which is why they don't render that way. 

You need to apply a transparent appearance from the drop down menu at the very top of your screen. 

Using any other transparent option won't work. 

You can also do this by setting up a view rep called something like 'transparent' in your assembly, using that override the parts with a to transparent appearance. 

That way you can use that view rep to render and user the master view rep to show it normally coloured.

[SharkDesign · Accepted solution]

Hopefully this video explains it. Sorry the audio is quiet, the kids are in bed!

https://knowledge.autodesk.com/community/screencast/84934e70-b22b-492a-b4ae-1f169e2c4389

[CD-Magnox]

Many thanks that has worked, one other question is how do I get a sharper image of the internals of my buildings?

I can now see the internals through the buildings however the image isn't sharp?

[SharkDesign · Accepted solution]

Maybe try changing the refraction setting in the appearance? Or changing
the amount of transparency or glossy. The tool tip explains how glossy
works.

[CD-Magnox]

Excellent thanks for your help